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...Colorado Springs, at their 14th national biennial convention last week, the Young Women's Christian Associations reiterated their stand on birth control, unanimously voting to "put sex bootleggers out of business" by supporting legislation to permit dissemination by doctors of contraceptive information...
Harper Brothers have announced the opening of their eighth biennial Prize Noel contest ending on February 1, 1937. A panel of judges has been appointed including Sinclair Lewis, Thornton Wilder, and Lewis Bromfield...
...Mine Workers of America like to tell this tale as an illustration not only of his strength and courage but of his resource and guile. Last week, for the first time since they moved their headquarters from Indianapolis, 1,716 U. M. W. leaders met in Washington for their biennial convention. There was more money ($2,298,000) in the treasury, more members (540,000) on the rolls than ever before in the union's 46 years. But what made the miners' convention really significant was that the doughty conqueror of Spanish Pete would, if he could, change...
...committee investigated Pitt, it found that Professor Turner was only the latest of many liberals whom Chancellor Bowman had forced out (TIME, March 4). Dr. Bowman, the committee believed, had sold out to rich, reactionary Pittsburghers. A committee of the Pennsylvania Legislature reached the same conclusion. Pitt received its biennial Appropriation from the State with a warning that, unless it reformed, that appropriation would be the last. Two professors traveled to St. Louis last week to plead for Pitt. In effect both bleated: "We're not nearly so black as we used to be." Unconvinced, the rest...
Died. Samuel Ryder, 77, head of Ryder " Sons, seedsmen, donor in 1926 of the Ryder Cup for biennial competition between British and U. S. professional golfers; of pneumonia; in London...